: 11pt”>He's not the only one, of course.
An activist called Jie Lijian told us he had been treated for mental illness without his consent in 2018.
Lijian says he was arrested for attending a protest demanding better pay at a factory. He says police interrogated him for three days before taking him to a psychiatric hospital.
Like Junjie, Lijian says he was prescribed anti-psychotic drugs that impaired his critical thinking.
After a week in the hospital, he says he refused any more medication. After fighting with staff, and being told he was causing trouble, Lijian was sent for ECT – a therapy which involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain.
"The pain was from head to toe. My whole body felt like it wasn't my own. It was really painful. Electric shock on. Then off. Electric shock on. Then off. I fainted several times. I felt like I was dying," he says.
He says he was discharged after 52 days. He now has a part-time job in Los Angeles and is seeking asylum in the US.
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